“Ours is not to be a Producer’s Theatre, nor an Actor’s Theatre; it is to be a Writer’s Theatre”

Authors

  • Răzvan Mureșan Faculty of Theatre and Film, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca

Keywords:

Royal Court Theatre, British theatre, contemporary drama, new writing, censure

Abstract

Royal Court has forged its reputation of being one of the most influencial companies that discovers, produces and promotes new writing. The history of this company is practically the history of contemporary British theatre. This article follows the start‐up period, the `50s and the `60s, when the company built a longstanding identity as a “writers’ theatre”, through innovative and provoking plays and performances, that often reflect the political, social and cultural climate of the era. The pattern designed by George Devine, the first artistic director of Royal Court, proved to be one of the most outstanding and successful, despite the financial difficulties or the obstructions of the official censorship.

Author Biography

Răzvan Mureșan, Faculty of Theatre and Film, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca

RĂZVAN MUREȘAN is a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Theatre and Television of Babeș‐Bolyai University Cluj‐Napoca, theatre director whose activity includes more than 25 shows on Romanian stages, and a constant participation in an important number of national and internatonal theatre festivals. In 2016, he gets a PhD Degree in theatre, with the thesis ”British Contemporary Stage. Experiment and innovation after 1945”.

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Published

2021-02-02

How to Cite

Mureșan, R. (2021). “Ours is not to be a Producer’s Theatre, nor an Actor’s Theatre; it is to be a Writer’s Theatre”. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai - Dramatica, 64(1), 81–98. Retrieved from https://dramatica.ro/index.php/j/article/view/80